October Meeting: Marie-Helene Bertino - Exit Zero

Recommended Stories:

• Exit Zero
• Can Only Houses Be Haunted?
• Viola in Midwinter

By the author of Beautyland (my personal favorite novel of the year), I'm super excited to read Exit Zero with y'all! I've truly enjoyed its strangeness, its inventiveness, and above all the human exploration that happens in these stories. Can't wait. -Ben

For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.

About the collection:
Death-shaped entities―with all of their humor and strangeness― haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive!